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Then you’re too young to be on Bluesky Point Break, all of us watched Futurama Season 1 as it first aired

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1h

i'm not talking so much about like mechanical limits but: what do you owe to people behind the screen, what kinds of interactions are healthy and unhealthy, what should you be seeking in a community

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 2h

also - this article highlights a response from Reed to Brigham in pink blocking that is used throughout the article for quotes, implying this is a direct quote (compare to second screenshot). But it's not a quote! Brigham is paraphrasing Reed, not quoting her -"something to the effect of..."

When Brigham asked Reed in her interview about how Reed writes for a trans audience, Reed paused, looked conflicted, and responded with something to the effect of:

Our main audience isn’t trans people; it’s the cis family members of trans people.

(the website has the last sentence displayed over the same box that the article uses for actual quotes, but this is a paraphrase not a quote)

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Ivy @poisonivy.bsky.social · 2h

i love when these creeps are stupid enough to fuck up their own PR all the 'well there's no proof the CNC orgy is an AI networking event' people in shambles

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LOT'S WIFE, THE CHAIR LEG OF TRUTH, PhD @yiff.com · 6h

I believe my previous criticism of your outlet /yourselves remains salient this is embarrassing at this point. i have no further choice but to start suggesting you wind this down and attempt to aid our community in a manner more aligned with your skills suggesting will become increasingly intense.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 8h

I too used AI to determine if the article below includes AI generated content and it turns out that by the article's own standards, it does!

Their own method flags their own article. Their "presence rule" treats any straight apostrophe or quote in a paragraph as evidence of pasting from an LLM. Here's what's in their own writing:

Section 1.1 has "doesn't" twice with straight apostrophes, next to a curly "That’s."
"aren't" in 6.2 is straight.
Altman's "small-but-happy win" is in straight quotes.
"‘pasted content test'" opens curly and closes straight.

By their standard, those paragraphs were machine-pasted. I'm reading a converted copy, so it's worth checking the page source, but mixed marks inside one phrase are hard to blame on conversion. This doesn't prove AI either way. It shows how many innocent sources of straight quotes exist: Google Docs settings, phone keyboards, Notion, pasting between drafts, co-authors with different setups. That's also the load-bearing weakness in their case against Reed.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 2h

This is an embarrassing claim, honestly, like I just read through like five of her posts and while yeah this is a small sample size, i do not understand how two women with postgraduate education are struggling to understand Reed's writing. It is simply not complex!

Both of the people involved in this investigation often struggled to understand what she was saying in her recent articles, despite both having postgraduate education. We can’t imagine how someone with a high school degree or less would be able to get any meaningful information out of her recent work.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

the rampant misandry is because of the continual rape

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gwen pepperoni 🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼🍕 @gwenpepperoni.myatproto.social · 4h

this is the same playbook that allows people to paint trans people as problematic and angry when we fight for our right to he treated as humans, btw

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Jess.jpg @surtic.bsky.social · 4h

Hey, if you see this and you're not doing too great please reach out. You've got a friend here, and I can't lose any more people.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 4h

he needs to get those sleeves tailored or his arms lengthened

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 5h

apparently this coward didn't get the Third Way memo

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 5h

This thread explains why the article's analysis is uhhhhh bad. bsky.app/profile/jane...

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Miriam Grace @miriamgrace.bsky.social · 11h

“referring to a fellow trans journalist by the women’s equivalent of his real name” The fuck did I just read

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TrashkittenDeluxe @trashkitten83.at.app.wafrn.net · 6h

Oh shit, HP Lovecraft used ai?!!

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 7h

We'll see what the response is, and I eagerly await some further expert analysis here. But there's something about this that, even if the exact nature of the AI allegations are overbaked, feels inevitable when the business model is mass producing articles that feed doomer tendencies in 2026.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 7h

Their evidence regarding Reed's use of em dashes is overstated and unfalsifiable (also self crit and full disclosure -this shows that using machine learning for this kind of analysis risks overstating the meaning of the collected evidence)

The em dash timeline cuts against them. By their own description, spaced hyphens faded over 2023 and em dashes didn't really take off until February 2025, about two years apart. That's gradual habit drift, not a light switch. Her em dash rate also didn't jump in February 2026, when she supposedly switched to a heavier em dash user. And their 6.5.3 predictions are rigged: nearly every scenario, including "she stops using AI," predicts the same outcome.

It's in section 6.5, "Em Dashes," spread across three subsections:

The two-year gap: section 6.5.1, the chart "Dashes Fall, While Em Dashes Rise." Its description says her spaced hyphens fade over the first half of 2023, and her em dashes stay under 2 per 1,000 words through 2024, then jump in February 2025. The chart text itself says "the two turning points are around two years apart." The "light switch" contrast is mine; that's their phrase for the straight-quote change in 6.2.3.
No jump in February 2026: section 6.5.2, "Em Dashes in Claude's Writing," where they say her em dash usage in 2026 is roughly what it was the year before. I need to retract my point here. Their story is ChatGPT in 2025, then Claude in 2026, and they say both used em dashes heavily. So their own theory predicts a flat line, and a flat line is what they found. That's consistent with them, not against them. It's just as consistent with no AI at all, so it's neutral evidence. I overstated it.
The predictions: section 6.5.3, "Em Dashes in the Future," the four numbered scenarios. Switching to Opus 5.5, switching away from Claude, or quitting AI all predict a drop, and staying on the same Claude predicts no change. So a drop confirms them and a flat line confirms them. "Rigged" was a bit strong for what's really an unfalsifiable setup: they didn't name any outcome that would count against them.

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David Bahry @davidbahry.bsky.social · 7h

the Washington Sun source article had quotes both from Platner and from Wood. One of the Wood quotes, Reed mistakenly attributes to Platner. (The Needle itself mistakenly claimed that the source had no Platner quotes at all, but it did, and Reed quoted it correctly.)

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 7h

I used machine learning to assess some of the claims in this article (turnabout is fair play after all) and here's what we found: Complex sentences with straight apostrophes are scored as "copied" and simple sentences are scored as typed. But of course complex have apostrophes!

The pasted-vs-typed comparison is mostly circular. A paragraph counts as "pasted" if it contains any straight apostrophe or quote. Everything else counts as "typed," including paragraphs with no quote marks at all. Longer paragraphs and sentences are simply more likely to contain an apostrophe. So "pasted paragraphs are longer, wordier, and harder to read" partly falls out of the definition. The comparison that would mean something is straight-marked vs curly-marked paragraphs, and I didn't see it.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 7h

This one is all me. "We could not get Claude to replicate Reed's writing that we already determined was written by Claude." What are we doing here, kids?

It’s also concerning that 2 of her articles in 2025-26 are more noticeably like the writing of Claude Opus 5 than anything we got Claude to write as part of this test. Worse still, 21 of her articles in the same period read as being more likely to have been written by Claude than the average of the articles we got Claude to write. All 21 of these occur after she switched to Claude.

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GMStarmie| Consentacle Disaster | 👾🐙 @tentacle.gay · 8h

Also, ya know, proper English writing by people with educations in communication is the fucking thing that AI is trained on.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 7h

takes a lot of nerve for the folks at The Needle to criticize other writers about "a litany of errors in 2026 alone"

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 7h

As Claude points out, human errors aren't evidence of AI use, and a model producing a real deadname is far less likely than a human accidentally typing it. Also, if i were a writer for the Needle, I simply would not criticize competitors for a "litany of errors in 2026 alone"!

Errors aren't AI evidence. Humans misattribute adjacent quotes constantly. The deadnaming, if accurate, is serious, but "only an LLM could have produced it" is speculation. It's also odd reasoning, since a model producing a real, unpublished deadname would be the less likely explanation. Their German-guidelines section even contradicts itself: it gives the release date as both Sep. 30 and Sep. 9, and calls a six-month gap "seven months."

Her litany of errors in 2026 includes deadnaming and misgendering a competing trans journalist who broke a story for one of her competitors! This was seven months ago, and the deadname is still up as of writing.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 8h

I too used AI to determine if the article below includes AI generated content and it turns out that by the article's own standards, it does!

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 29/09/2026

This is really important to flag because there is a tendency among Bluesky centrists to blame 3 specific trans women discouraging trans people from voting by criticizing democrats when the reality of trans people not voting is because of actual GOP voter suppression around our IDs.

A new study from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law found that one in four transgender Americans will face significant hurdles in voting this fall and nine percent will face the real prospect of disenfranchisement because of mismatching identification documents.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 9h

Waiting for Paulauski et al to eat crow about how this shit was necessary for dems to cave to

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11h

i dont think people deluded themselves really…they were told by republicans that “mass deportation” was criminals and the media didnt fact check and democrats moved right on the issue there was no alternative offered to mass deportation, no one even argued against it

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 9h

one future we could begin experimenting with right now is: when, as a way to deal with a problem, we are invited only to invent better ways to punish people, we can refuse

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 11h

Yes! What’s crazy is that that is shifting now too… finally. This was just yesterday. bsky.app/profile/dana...

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 12h

this touches on the weirdest part of the discourse around this the last month. So many people making excuses for his waffling have explicitly stated that he was just lying to his constituents (referred to as "hogs") and that this was Good. extremely baffling arguments

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 12h

agreed with this, which makes it all the more frustrating that he waffled on the trans girls in sports question.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 15h

if you do not show proper respect to the receipt printer gods, this is what will befall you

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 17h

The ancient world was a far more interconnected place than is commonly recognised. Nearly 2,000 years ago, a sailor named Diogenes travelled 25 days inland from the coast of Tanzania to reach the source of the Nile near the “Mountains of the Moon” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/ancient-ex...

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Ancient Expeditions to Central Africa and the Circumnavigation of the Continent

The ancient world was a far more interconnected place than is commonly recognised.

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Fights🏳️‍⚧️4🇵🇸Love @hyenagirl64.bsky.social · 23h

Endless moral panics over nonsense, yet endless social support for rape and murder at scale So long as it’s the “right” people doing it to the “right” victims A white man can order the murder of infinite fishermen and the entire US military will move to do it Yet how dare a kid take estrogen?

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 23h

fuck Patrick Kane and fuck the Chicago Blackhawks

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 23h

the fight for abortion rights is the fight for trans rights is the fight for foundational bodily autonomy for all of us. every issue is a queer issue and if you haven't realized this yet, don't worry. they'll show you.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 30/09/2026

free advice - if you've had a legal name change, don't wait until the last minute to change your name on your credit cards and with the credit bureau.

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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thinking about all the people who mockingly said “borger expensive”

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Michael Tracey has so much to answer for.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 29/09/2026

I have gotten multiple cis people suspended for this by reporting posts telling trans people to enjoy the camps - violation of community guidelines 1.B.i and 2.B.iii.c

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Transphobia is designed by the right to drive a wedge bw Democratic constituencies to undermine women’s health care rights, racial equity, voting rights and climate science. It’s “magic” one of the main architects of the strategy brashly says. But if there ever was a spell, it’s wearing off

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 29/09/2026

how are we supposed to take this guy seriously when he can't keep straight the fact that Biden was not on the ballot in 2024?

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The anti-Biden people will never talk about this, and it is the single most obvious and clear sign that:

1. Trump was far worse in every way.
2. They have no idea what the fuck they’re talking about.

They all checked out when Biden lost, because that’s what they cared about.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 29/09/2026

With this, the Third Way moves back to the center on trans rights and firmly to the left both of Bluesky centrists who have argued that adopting some anti-trans talking points is important for democrats to win and Jacobin.

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The right's attacks on trans people have always been the tip of the spear, an entry point into wider abuses that threaten American democracy. Government agents have killed and kidnapped people on US streets. Tens of thousands are held in inhumane detention camps, deprived of due process.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 29/09/2026

incredible that they got there before some Bluesky centrists did

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Papers like the NYT have encouraged the dehumanization of trans people, which scholars note is the first step in genocide. Erasing the coverage of this man’s identity is evil/complicity.

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